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Old 07-27-2006
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Originally Posted by tabodi
Should have said it doesnt have a CD drive or the abilty to have one
Doesn't even have the ability to have one? I know it probably can't boot from CD but if it's got an IDE controller then linux at least should be able to use the CDROM.

I know someone who ran an ancient version of Debian on an 80386. You might have some luck hunting up boot floppies and data CDROMs for that.
 
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